Jane Robbins, Author at The National Pulse

Analysis

Massachusetts Court Thwarts Parent-Led Effort to Put Common Core on Ballot

Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) threw out an initiative petition signed by over 130,000 Massachusetts citizens to challenge the adoption and implementation of the Common Core national standards and…

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For Teachers and Students, Common Core Math Simply Doesn’t Add Up

It’s been observed that soccer is a perfect socialist sport (with apologies to conservative soccer fans out there, if there are any). Among many analogies is that, like socialism, which…

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Seven Deadly Progressive Education Myths

In many ways, the progressive education establishment is akin to a leftist “Hive”—people who think and speak alike and move in concert, even without centralized control or an active conspiracy.…

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College Board Continues Assault on History Curriculum

The National Association of Scholars (NAS), which has done valuable work on the College Board’s attempt to impose a leftist national U.S. history curriculum through its Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History…

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How Obama Is Driving Our Schools Into Chaos

In the movie The Dark Knight, which this author didn’t see but was alerted to by the perceptive Benham Brothers, there apparently is a scene in which Batman and the…

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Education Elites Double Down on Common Core

We reported a while back on the growing “achievement gap” between black and white students in Kentucky, which was the first state to hop on board the Common Core Express and…

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No, Hillary Clinton Will Not Make Preschool Great Again

Hillary Clinton wants universal preschool — to get children into institutional (preferably government-controlled) education as early as possible. Given her preference for the “village” over the family, Clinton certainly recognizes…

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Gates Foundation: If At First Common Core Doesn’t Succeed, Try Again!

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is demonstrating its grit, tenacity, and perseverance — character traits much in vogue among the progressive-education set — by refusing to admit defeat in…

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Help Wanted: Leaders Willing to Stand Up to Washington Bullies

Attorney General Loretta Lynch proclaims that moms and dads who don’t want their little girls forced to share restrooms with grown men are just reincarnated Bull Connors. Presumably Lynch speaks…

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Government-Sponsored “Research” Putting Children’s Privacy At Risk

Much has been written about the dangers of the proposed Strengthening Education Through Research Act (SETRA), especially the bill’s extension of student data-collection to socioemotional data. But parents should realize the…

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The Delusional Defense of Common Core Continues

For the second time in a week, an article has been published about Common Core that seems to have been written three years ago and never updated. Last week brought…

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Time to Admit the Obvious: Common Core Has Failed Spectacularly

Cosmic timing. On the same day former Bush Administration official Douglas Holtz-Eakin warned that discarding the Common Core national standards would diminish students’ college-readiness and harm the economy, the news came…

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